Program Menu for mac equivalent to Windows Start Menu

I have just spent 30 minutes trying to find an image scanner app that I downloaded when I first got the Mac 6 months ago, had no idea what it was called, so had to trawl through every single unknown app and folder in the Applications directory.
In Windows, under the Programs menu, I used to have sub groups, such as Internet, Graphics, Audio, Utilities etc.
Is there a way to have a menu group structure/pop up menu type system in Leopard, Ok so yo have the dock for regularly used apps, but I donot want shortcuts on it for every single app on the machine.
Some sort of convenient groups menu system as in Windows that allows you quick access to rarely used apps ...especially ones that yoy have forgotten about, and cant user spotlight to find, since you cant remember their names!
Either an app, or a a way of doing it within Leopard would be better.
I have tried a few freeware ones, but wonder if anyone had any other suggestions that I may have missed
Neil

Neil Paisnel wrote:
I have already added several other apps of my own to the Utilities folder. i was wondering if I could create new folders within the Application folder and then drag them into there, but if you cant move the Apps that came with the OS, then that would get a bit messy.
You can, but sometimes software update and the installers don't like it. So you should leave them alone. I suppose what you could do is;
Make a new folder in your home folder somewhere called Apps.
Create within that as many folders as you like with the categories you described.
Create aliases by right clicking all the Applications you need to and move them into the subfolders in your new Apps folder.
Put that folder in the dock.
I had tried to create folders full of alises, but that does not work either, some apps do not give you the option to create an alias for them.
For some reason some apps (Tag 0.4.1, GPSBabel, VueScan, SuperDuper, Carbon Copy, Chronosync etc ) when you right click on them do not show a 'Make Alias' in the contextual menu.
Maybe it's a Snow Leo thing? I seem to be able to.
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